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2 SBS - Tawau Assault Group
Unit/ Formation: SBS Location: Sarawak Period/ Conflict: Malayan Emergency Year: 1964 Date/s: October 1964 2 SBS were flown into Sarawak...

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Oct 14, 20201 min read
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Formation of 40 Cdo RM
Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Great Britain Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1942 Date/s: 12 October 1942 Formed at Deal...

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Oct 13, 20204 min read
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41 CDO - North Korea - Raid on East Coast Railway
Unit/ Formation: 41 Cdo RM Location: Korea Period/ Conflict: Korean War Year: 1950 Date/s: October 1950 125 men and five officers of C &...

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Oct 11, 20201 min read
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Kamerun Campaign
Unit/ Formation: Royal Marines Location: Africa Period/ Conflict: World War I Year: 1914 Date/s: 1914 - 1916 By the first week in...

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Oct 9, 20201 min read
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The Battle of Entzheim
Unit/ Formation: Marine Regiments Location: France Period/ Conflict: The Franco Dutch War Year: 1674 Date/s: Thursday 4th October 1674...

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Oct 4, 20201 min read
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Operation Devon - Raid on Termoli
Operation Devon - Raid on Termoli Unit/ Formation: 40 Cdo RM Location: Italy Period/ Conflict: World War II Year: 1943 Date/s: 3 October...

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Oct 3, 20203 min read
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Happy Birthday #Royal Marines Projecting Global Power Since 1664
Formed in the reign of King Charles II on October 28, 1664 as the Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot (or Admiral’s...

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Oct 28, 20192 min read
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SAS Raid on Cortley Ridge - Supported by SBS and 1st Raiding Squadron
Unit/ Formation: Landing Craft Units Location: The Falkland Islands Period/ Conflict: The Falklands War Year: 1982 Date/s: 13 June 1982...

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Oct 23, 20197 min read
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Captain Derek Oakley MBE - First to Land at Suez - 42 CDO Musketeer
Captain Derek Oakley MBE, born October 27 1926, died September 22 2019 Captain Derek Oakley, who has died aged 92, was an author,...

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Oct 22, 20193 min read
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Captain of Marines Charles William Adair - Killed at the Battle of Trafalgar - 21st October 1805
Royal Marines Museum Collection (Unknown Artist) Charles William Adair (Captain Royal Marines) On joining HMS VICTORY Adair, Charles...

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Oct 21, 20192 min read
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Royal Marines - Making Safe Mines and Bombs
They make safe enemy bombs and mines. 16 October 1944, Boulogne. The RMS and BDO (Render Mines Safe and Bomb Disposal Officer) and his squad at their risky work Royal Marines of the Bomb Disposal and Render Mines Safe Squad dealing with German G mines and parachute mines recovered from under dock walls in Boulogne. © IWM (A 26045) Removing the Primer from a German G mine. (© IWM (A 26043) The RMS and DSO Officer Lieut G S Brydon, RNVR, aged 29, of Cartoosh, Lankarshire, di

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Oct 16, 20191 min read
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Operation Impact Plain - Battle of the Pump House - 40 CDO RM Last Action of WWII
Operation Roast Battle of the Argenta Gap, Lake Comacchio, Italy, launched on the 1st April 1945 involving the whole of 2 Commando...

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Oct 6, 20194 min read
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Major FJ Ricketts Royal Marines - 'Colonel Bogey'
Frederick Joseph Ricketts (21 February 1881 – 15 May 1945) was an English composer of marches for band. Under the pen name Kenneth J....

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Oct 4, 20194 min read
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King George V inspects Royal Marine cadets and officers at Deal 1917
IWM Archive Film: IWM 201 King George V inspects Royal Marine cadets and officers at Deal, 1917 The King, in Field Marshal's uniform,...

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Oct 2, 20191 min read
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The RMA Howitzer Brigade in France
The RMA Howitzer Brigade in France In October 1914 the RMA was reorganised to provide two artillery brigades for the Western Front. One...

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Oct 1, 20192 min read
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Lieutenant-Colonel 'Pug' Davis - founding father of the Special Boat Service, and won a DSC
Lieutenant-Colonel "Pug" Davis (1923 - 2011 aged 87), was the founding father of the Special Boat Service, and won a DSC for a daring...

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Oct 1, 20184 min read
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